The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme drew the attention of MEPC 49 to the fact that only three ports in the region currently had adequate reception facilities and proposed a regional approach to the provision of adequate waste reception facilities, based on several “regional ships' waste reception centers”, which would satisfy the relevant MARPOL obligations for the Pacific island countries.37 MEPC 49 agreed that “regional arrangements”, such as the one proposed by the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme was an acceptable way of satisfying MARPOL 73/78 obligations to provide adequate reception facilities for ships.
El Comité de Protección del Medio Marino, reunido en su 49º período de sesiones, convino en que los “arreglos regionales”, como el propuesto por el Programa Regional del Pacífico Sur para el Medio Ambiente, eran un modo aceptable de cumplir la obligación de proveer instalaciones receptoras de desechos adecuadas para buques que impone MARPOL 73/78.